PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

NWOBHM heroes Avenger reveal the coverart for their forthcoming brand new album “The Slaughter Never Stops”. The album is set for release on Rocksector Records on 1st December 2014, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band’s iconic debut album “Bloodsports”. Brian Ross, Mick Moore and Gary Young founded the band …

Heavy metal, in general, in it’s most simple terms deals mainly with strong view points or emotions be it hate, war, death, religion etc. Feelings of vunerability, sorrow or fear are only usually dealt with in passing, this tends to be because writing about such topics without sounding trite or …

Blues rock legend, Mick Ralphs, and his band are thrilled to announce the appointment of their new lead singer, Adam Barron, who will be joining them for all of their UK dates this winter. Adam comes with a background in classic blues-rock with a set of pipes that you’ve really …

The remaining members of legendary metal pioneers RIOT are back and are ready to unleash the follow up to 2011’s reunion record ‘Immortal Soul’. They are ready to unleash music in the great RIOT tradition that the fans come to know and love. RIOT V is now ready to ‘UNLEASH …

This job has a lot of pros and cons; and sometimes it is hard to continue after you hear bland act after bland act, or worse something by Avenged Sevenfold. So, it is rare to have an album that has nothing that you feel the artist could improve on. The …

The words ‘comeback album’ are very often banded around the music industry for a number of quite trivial reasons. Hindsight generally plays a big role in this, particularly if it’s a case of the artist or band merely needing to sell more copies of the album than the previous release …

According to historical records, pirates (at least in their commonly perceived historical incarnation) may have sailed into many ports but they never quite ventured as far north as Britain – and certainly never as far as the shores of what, at that time, would have been Carrickfergus Bay. However, British …

Entertainment One, in association with Metropolis Studios, present The Rock Screen, a new series of Rock documentary & live DVD releases for 2015. Iconic Scottish rock band Nazareth, who hail from Dunfermline, are the first of the bands to feature in the series and are offering fans and media the …

@louelladeville_  @planetmosh @thefourfours The Four Fours are set to release their new single… Go! Following the success of their debut single ‘Count to Ten/Messing With History’, the masked trio from Derbyshire are ready to ‘Go’ with their new single due out 27th October. ‘Go’ showcases the band’s melodic side and songwriting …

Following on from 2011’s ‘This is Gonna Hurt’, Sixx:A.M. have returned with their third full length album; Modern Vintage which is out now. From the very first track ‘Stars’ the listener is under no illusion that this is a record full of big sounding choruses and catchy hooks. James Michael’s …

    This is one of those three track E.P.’s that certainly leaves you clambering for more. As fast as a speeding bullet from the off, ballads sure are not the order of the day, with brutal riffs a plenty, over spilling with dynamic quality and precision, to get you …

    From the first pluck of the strings, I just knew this was going to be a good album. With raunchy, lascivious little Bad Habits bringing to mind all manner of naughtiness, this is one earthy showcase of what real retro rock sounds like! I’ve said this before, and forgive …

@louelladeville_ @planetmosh review of @antinowhere and #DeadObjectives @MancAcademy It was a miserable evening as I battled the traffic heading to Manchester Academy 3 to see the Anti-Nowhere League (ANL), but it didn’t deter a long queue of gig goers for the adjacent Academy 1. Whilst it wasn’t the first time …

When I first came across young Armagh metallians Sentinel, opening a charity gig in Belfast, I must admit that I wasn’t overly impressed:  but then, as I said, they are young (drummer Jordie Kelly is still only 15!) and it was only their third ever live performance… Move the clock …

Sometimes, no matter how well you think you know your local music scene, you suddenly find you don’t know it quite so well as you did, as something comes completely out of left field and makes you ask “where the fuck did that come from?”. In this case, I had …

Indian metal veterans Demonic Resurrection recently released a creepy trailer hinting at a possible music video. The trailer was indeed for their new music video for the song ‘Death, Desolation And Despair‘ from their recently released 4th studio album ‘The Demon King‘ out worldwide on Candlelight Records and Universal Music. …

WILDFIRE FESTIVAL have released a Special Autumn Ticket Offer as the early bird tickets sold out very fast, so a further 100 tickets are being offered at the amazing price of just £50! with no booking fee, which represents a saving of 20% from what will be our final price …

A miserable wet Friday  helped set the atmosphere for  In Solitude‘s Dublin date with support from the mighty Beastmilk. The smell of incense filled the air to alert the senses that this wasn’t to be a standard metal gig. Opening proceedings was solo act Daniel Bay, who, as a replacement …

Black metal is a genre which, in many ways, is split straight down the middle – between those who seek to live merely on its past glories and those who desire to drive it forward and re-establish its relevancy in the modern era:  those content to don the antiquated corpse …

Grass roots is where it starts with hard slogging, vans breaking down, sleeping in the van, getting sick of Subway or living off Pot Noodles; the hotels and catering of the arenas are the thing of dreams. Tonight’s headliners The Treatment have had a taste of that dream touring with …